Llamas in Minecraft

Llamas are neutral pack animals that can be equipped with chests and form caravans. Ideal for transportation and multiplayer adventures - decorative with rugs and ready for battle by spitting.

Written on May 12, 2025

Properties

  • Life - 15-30 (varies depending on specimen)

  • Behavior - Neutral stance, spit when attacked

  • Power - 3 to 15 slots (depending on strength)

  • Group dynamics - Automatically form caravans when leading a llama

Taming

  • Right-click with empty hand to ascend

  • the llama will discard the player - repeat the process until heart particles appear

  • After taming, it can be decorated with rugs and equipped with a chest

Use

  • Transport animal - Equipped with a chest, a llama carries inventory (number of slots depends on strength)

  • Caravan - If a llama is led on a leash, up to 9 more follow automatically

  • Decoration - Different carpets give the llama individual patterns

Breeding

  • Food - hay bales

  • Two tamed llamas produce a llama foal

  • Strength of the offspring is determined randomly or based on the parents

  • Dealer llamas

  • Spawn with traveling merchants

  • Disappear after some time or after the death of the merchant

  • Can also be tamed and kept

Tips

  • Use llamas for transportation on longer journeys or to remote bases

  • Tie a leash to a llama to set a whole caravan in motion

  • Llama caravans are ideal for roleplay or trading trips on multiplayer servers

Trivia

  • Llamas attack enemies by spitting, cause light damage

  • The color and pattern of the carpet affect the appearance, but not the function

  • The maximum carrying capacity (15 slots) is possible at strength level 5

Lama

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Overview

Developer

Mojang

Studio

Mojang

Release

May 17, 2009

Genres

Adventure, Open-World, Survival, Sandbox

Platforms

Linux, Windows, Mac OS X

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